Shanks, C. (BMEB) – Development and Application of Local Ancestry Methods for Population Genomics
Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin DriveLocal ancestry methods classify the segments of DNA inherited from a specific ancestry (e.g., African, East Asian, European), improving analyses of admixed populations. Aim 1 applies ancestry-specific analysis to more than 1000 whole genome sequences across Polynesia, revealing strong bottlenecks in the voyagers who settled both Hawaiʻi and Rapa Nui, and confirming frequencies of Mendelian […]